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Ray Benson and Bruce Robison to appear at Haiti benefit tonight!

Posted in events, featured wine, wine sales with tags , , , , , , on January 26, 2010 by Do Bianchi

It’s official: Austin music legends Ray Benson (left, photo by Ed Verosky) and Bruce Robison will be appearing tonight at the Stand With Haiti benefit at Vino Vino.

KAT EDMONSON AND FRIENDS
FEATURING RAY BENSON AND BRUCE ROBISON
BENEFIT FOR HAITI
TUESDAY, JANUARY 26
7 P.M. – 10 P.M.
VINO VINO
4119 Guadalupe Street
Austin, TX 78751-4222
(512) 465-9282

Please remember that FOR EVERY BOTTLE YOU TAKE HOME TONIGHT, VINO VINO WILL DONATE 50% OF THE SALE TO PARTNERS IN HEALTH STAND FOR HAITI!

Stand With Haiti

In other news… we like wines that taste like herbs…

The Mas de Gourgonnier 2006 Les Baux de Provence tastes like the scrubs and herbs that grow in the countryside of Provence in southern France. This meaty, earthy, inky, rich, and intensely aromatic wine is a great pairing for the stews of winter. It tastes so much like herbs, we almost wanted to smoke it!

$42 at Vino Vino (for dinner or to take home).

And in case you were wondering…

The answer to yesterday’s riddle Why is a musician’s bandstand like an oven?

Because it’s how s/he makes his bread!

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The stars in tomorrow’s all-star lineup

Posted in events, music, wine sales with tags , , , , , , , , on January 25, 2010 by Do Bianchi

The stars of the Austin music scene are coming out for tomorrow night’s “Stand with Haiti” benefit. Who are they? We can’t reveal their names but we can tell you that some of the top names from the Austin music scene will be appearing… so be there OR BE SQUARE!

Riddle me this:

Why is a musician’s bandstand like an oven?

REMEMBER: FOR EVERY BOTTLE YOU TAKE HOME TOMORROW NIGHT, VINO VINO WILL DONATE 50% OF THE SALE TO PARTNERS IN HEALTH STAND FOR HAITI!

KAT EDMONSON AND FRIENDS
BENEFIT FOR HAITI
TUESDAY, JANUARY 26
7 P.M. – 10 P.M.
VINO VINO
4119 Guadalupe Street
Austin, TX 78751-4222
(512) 465-9282

Stand With Haiti

In other news… we like wines that taste like rocks…

Cantine Valpane Barbera del Monferrato Rosso Pietro is another one of Kermit Lynch’s super-groovy discoveries. Most folks think of Alba and Asti but in my view (and experience), the BEST Barbera comes from Monferrato, where the nutrient-poor, ancient marl and sandy subsoil is ideal for creating wines with intense minerality and earthiness. This wine is ALL ABOUT umami (savory) flavors: earth, mushroom, rock… Totally traditional in style, this wine is also a great example of a carbonic maceration: the winemaker loads whole clusters of grapes into a vat and lets gravity break the skins and start fermentation naturally with native yeast. As in the wines of Beaujolais, it helps to create intense fruit flavor. Wine geeks will LOVE this wine. And we love it, too!

FOR EVERY BOTTLE YOU TAKE HOME TOMORROW NIGHT, VINO VINO WILL DONATE 50% OF THE SALE TO PARTNERS IN HEALTH STAND FOR HAITI!

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